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Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Originally scheduled on January 2nd but delayed due to technical issues.   Walter Mosley Walter Mosley and Richard Wolinsky, 2009. Walter Mosley in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded June 23, 1996 in the KPFA studios while on tour for the novel, “A Little Yellow Dog.” He also discusses his first mainstream novel, “RL's Dream” and the film version of “Devil in a Blue Dress.” Today, Walter Mosley is one of America's leading authors. He is best known for his series of mystery novels featuring the characters of Easy Rawlins and Mouse. To date, there are now twenty non-series novels by Walter Mosley, the most recent titled Touched, published in 2023, Along with three Fearless Jones novels, six Leonid McGill mysteries, three Socrates Fortlow books, three books in the Crosstown to Oblivion series, three books in the King Oliver series, plus two graphic novels, two plays, and six works of non-fiction. Always Outnumbered became a television film in 1998 starring Laurence Fishburne. Devil In A Blue Dress, is to date, the only Easy Rawlins mystery adapted for film.  In 2022, Samuel L. Jackson starred in a TV miniseries titled The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, based on Walter Mosley's book, and primarily written by Walter Mosley. At present, an adaptation of his novel The Man in My Basement is in post-production. The next Easy Rawlins novel, Farewell Amethystine was published in June 2024. This interview was digitized, remastered and edited in December, 2024 by Richard Wolinsky. It has not been heard in 25 years. This is the second of five interviews, to date, with Walter Mosley. Complete Interview.   Tony Hillerman (1925-2008)​​​ Tony Hillerman (1925-2008), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded January 30, 1997 while on tour for his Leaphorn/Chee novel, “The Fallen Man,” the twelfth book in the series. Hillerman, who died in 2008 at the age of 83, wass a  master of the detective genre and an important writer in detailing life on the Navajo reservation. His several novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee have been acclaimed for their accuracy and for their ability to combine Navajo history and thought into strong plot-driven novels. There are four interviews with Tony Hillerman in the Probabilities and Bookwaves archive.  This third interview, was recorded on January 30th, 1997 in the KPFA studios while he was on tour for his novel, The Fallen Man, the twelfth in the Leaphorn Chee series. Iin the interview, he also discusses his 1995  stand-alone novel, Finding Moon, This interview was digitized, remastered and edited in November, 2024, and not heard for over a quarter century. Complete Interview   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  See website for highlights from the 10th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2, 2024. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.  Monthly Event Calendar. BookShop West Portal. Monthly Event Calendar. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actors Ensemble of Berkeley. See website for specific days and times, and for staged readings at LaVal's Subterranean Theater. Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).   See website for upcoming productions. African American Art & Culture Complex. See website for calendar. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre Cancelled: Our Class, February 13- 23, Strand. Aurora Theatre  The Heart-Sellers by Lloyd Suh, February 9 – March 9, 2025. Awesome Theatre Company. See website for information. Berkeley Rep. The Thing About Jellyfish, based on the novel by Ali Benjamin, adapted by Keith Bunin, January 31 – March 9, World Premiere, Roda Theatre. Berkeley Shakespeare Company. See website for upcoming shows. Boxcar Theatre. Magic Man, Jan 3 – June 2, Palace Theatre. Brava Theatre Center: See calendar for current and upcoming productions. BroadwaySF: Some Like It Hot, January 7-26, Orpheum. See website for shorter runs: Mean Girls, Beetlejuice, Dog Man: The Musical. The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes, thru Dec. 22, Curran. See website for complete listings.. Broadway San Jose:  The Cher Show. March 18 – 23. Center Rep: Froggy, Feb. 9 – March 7. Lesher Center. Central Stage. See website for upcoming productions, 5221 Central Avenue, Richmond Central Works  Push/Pull by Harry Davis, March 1 – 30, 2025. Cinnabar Theatre. Gutenberg! The Musical, January 17 – 26, 2025, Warren Theatre, Sonoma State University. Club Fugazi. Dear San Francisco ongoing.. Check website for Music Mondays listings. Contra Costa Civic Theatre Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury. February 1 – 16, 2025. 42nd Street Moon. See website for upcoming productions. Golden Thread  Upcoming: Pilgrimage by Humaira Ghilzai and Bridgette Dutta Portman, co-produced with Z Space. New Threads Staged Reading Series: Oriental, or 1001 Ways to Tie Yourself in Knots by Evren Odcikin Hillbarn Theatre: Daisy by Sean Devine, January 23 – February  9. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. Los Altos Stage Company. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Jan. 23 – Feb. 16. Lower Bottom Playaz  See website for upcoming productions. Magic Theatre. the boiling by Sunui Chang  April 3 -20, 2025. See website for additional events. Marin Theatre Company Waste by Harley Granville-Barker,  Feb. 6 – March 2, 2025. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) Deep Inside, Tonight by the Kinsey Sicks, December 4 – January 5. Oakland Theater Project.  A Thousand Ships by Marcus Gardley, World Premiere, December 13 – January 5. Flax Art & Design. Odd Salon: Upcoming events in San Francisco & New York, and streaming. Palace of Fine Arts Theater. 22nd SF Sketch Fest, January 16 – February 2. See website for other events. Pear Theater. The Gods of Comedy by Ken Ludwig,  Feb. 21 – March 16. See website for staged readings and other events. Playful People Productions. See website for upcoming productions and events. Presidio Theatre. See website for complete schedule of events and performances. Ray of Light: See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko and upcoming productions.. San Francisco Playhouse. Waitress, November 21, 2024 – January 18, 2025. SFBATCO.  See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: See website for upcoming schedule. Shotgun Players.  Thirty Six: Do You Like What You See by Leah Nanako Winkler. November 18 – January 4, extended. South Bay Musical Theatre: Urinetown,  January 15 – February 15, 2025. Saratoga Civic Theater. Stagebridge: See website for events and productions. Storytime every 4th Saturday. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Lunatico  See website for upcoming productions. Theatre Rhino  Doodler, conceived and directed by John Fisher, February 8- March 2. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Rachmaninoff and the Czar with Hershey Felder and Jonathan Silvestri, Jan. 8 – Feb. 9, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Word for Word.  See website for upcoming productions. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                                   . The post January 9, 2025: Walter Mosley – Tony Hillerman appeared first on KPFA.

Tony Hillerman (1925-2008), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded January 30, 1997 while on tour for his Leaphorn/Chee novel, “The Fallen Man,” the twelfth book in the series. Hillerman, who died in 2008 at the age of 83, wass a  master of the detective genre and an important writer in detailing life on the Navajo reservation. His several novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee have been acclaimed for their accuracy and for their ability to combine Navajo history and thought into strong plot-driven novels. There are four interviews with Tony Hillerman in the Probabilities and Bookwaves archive.  This third interview, was recorded on January 30th, 1997 in the KPFA studios while he was on tour for his novel, The Fallen Man, the twelfth in the Leaphorn Chee series. Iin the interview, he also discusses his 1995  stand-alone novel, Finding Moon, This interview was digitized, remastered and edited in November, 2024, and not heard for over a quarter century. The post Tony Hillerman (1925-2008), Master of the Southwest Mystery, 1997 appeared first on KPFA.

Preview Episode 63, a continuation of our talk with filmmaker Billy Luther, story editor, writer and director for the AMC series DARK WINDS. Based on the Leaphorn and Chee detective novels by Tony Hillerman, DARK WINDS is set in Navajo country in the 1970s and features tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten), and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Billy Luther takes us inside the writers room in Ep. 63. In the preview Billy talks about the eclipse story in season 2 and why Navajo writers in the writing room are making a difference in this adaptation of Hillerman's books. Episode 63 is available December 10, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historicaldramasisters/support

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   The Probabilities Archive: Two Interviews conducted by Richard A. Lupoff The works of Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) seem to have fallen into some kind of unwarranted obscurity in recent years. An author of science fiction, horror and fantasy stories, during his lifetime he was considered a master of genre fiction. It was Fritz Leiber, according to Wikipedia, who coined the term sword and sorcery to refer to fantasy stories set in medieval times involving knights and squires and castles and dragons and all sorts of magic. His own sword and sorcery duo, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser whose stories were collected in several volumes, along with characters such as Conan the Barbarian by his contemporary, Robert E. Howard, are considered among the most notable in the genre. A stylist at a time when there were few stylists in science fiction and fantasy, his books often had social themes, including Gather Darkness, set in a future religious dystopia, The Wanderer, which explores what happens when a rogue planet comes near earth, and Our Lady of Darkness, which sets up a lovecraftian world inside modern day San Francisco. Back in the very early days of Probabilities, the three hosts (Lawrence Davidson, Richard A. Lupoff, Richard Wolinsky) associated socially with Fritz Leiber. There were three recordings to emerge from that time. One of them, focusing on Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser, exists only as a reel to reel tape, still to be digitized. Another was recorded in Leiber's apartment on Geary Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin, when Leiber was more expansive than usual. In that recording, only Fritz's voice is intelligible. The third was an interview with Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in KPFA's studios during Science Fiction Day on the KPFA fund-raising marathon in September 1977. Digitized, remastered and edited in August 2023. Complete Interview   Tony Hillerman, who died in 2008 at the age of 83, was a master of the detective genre and an important writer in detailing life on the Navajo reservation. His several novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee have been acclaimed for their accuracy and for their ability to combine Navajo history and thought into strong plot-driven novels. There are four interviews with Tony Hillerman in the Probabilities and Bookwaves archive. This first interview, conducted by Richard A. Lupoff, the late co-host of Probabilities, was recorded on January 14, 1987 in a hotel in San Francisco while Hillerman was on tour for his novel, Skinwalkers, the seventh in the series, and the first to feature both Leaphorn and Chee. He would continue to write a total of eighteen books in the series, and his daughter, Anne Hillerman, has continued the series with eight more novels, the most recent being The Way of the Bear, which was published in April, 2023. Tony Hillerman also wrote four novels outside the series, and several books of non-fiction and photography. The Dark Wind was adapted into a theatrical film in 1991. Three other novels were adapted as TV movies for PBS, and Dark Winds, a streaming series currently on AMC, is adapted from Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee novels. Complete Interview.   Review of “Mahabharata” at Z Space through August 20, 2023.   Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival  Event calendar and links to previous events. Book Passage.  Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc.  Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith.  Monthly Event Calendar. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books  On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. Actor's Reading Collective (ARC).  See website for past streams. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre  The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical,  August 25 – October 1, 2023. Aurora Theatre  Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, September 1 – October 1. Awesome Theatre Company. Check website for upcoming live shows and streaming. BAMBDFest. Festival in Celebration of Black Arts and Culture, through August  31, BAM House (formerly Oakland PianoFight). Berkeley Rep POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, by Selina Fillinger, September 16 – October 22, Roda Theatre. Boxcar Theatre. See website for calendar listings. Brava Theatre Center: See website for events. BroadwaySF: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, August 1-27, 2023, Golden Gate. Broadway San Jose: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, August 29 – September 3. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). No 2023 season scheduled. See website for events calendar. Center Rep: Crowns by Regina Taylor, September 9 – October 6, 2023. Central Works The Engine of Our Disruption by Patricia Milton, October 14 – November 12. Cinnabar Theatre. The Sound of Music, September 8 -24. Club Fugazi. See website for Club Date events in August. Dear San Francisco returns September 8, 2023. Contra Costa Civic Theatre Sondheim on Sondheim, August 25 – September 10; Tintypes, October 20 – November 12. Curran Theater: See website for upcoming live events and streaming choices. Custom Made Theatre. Tiny Fires by Aimee Suzara, postponed to a later date in 2023. Cutting Ball Theatre. See website for upcoming season. 42nd Street Moon. See website for upcoming shows. Golden Thread  New Threads staged reading series, August 20 and August 27. Landmark Musical Theater.  My Unauthorized Hallmark Movie Musical, extended to August 20, 2023. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. See website for upcoming productions and events. Magic Theatre. Josephine's Feast by Star Finch, extended to September 27, Campo Santo at the Magic. See website for other events at the Magic. Marin Theatre Company Odyssey written and directed by Lisa Peterson, August 31 – September 24. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC)  Transnational Cabaret runs through August 20.  Before The Sword by Andrew Alty, September 15 – October 15. Oakland Theater Project.  Mahabarata by Geetha Reddy, August 10 – 20, at Z Space, San Francisco. Gary, a sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac, September 1 – 24. Pear Theater. Noises Off by Michael Frayn,  September 8 – October 1. PianoFight. Permanently closed as of March 18, 2023. Presidio Theatre. See website for upcoming productions Ray of Light:  Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical, September 8 – October 1, Victoria Theatre. The Rocky Horror Show, Oasis Nightclub, October 6  – 31. See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko. San Francisco Playhouse.  A Chorus Line runs through September 16, 2023. SFBATCO See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason, October 12 – 30. Shotgun Players. Summer Salon: Various artists, July 23 – August 19. Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, Performances start September 2, 2023. South Bay Musical Theatre: Rent, September 30 – October 21. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Rhino  Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand, New performances most Wednesdays. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. New Works Festival, August 11 – 20, Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto. Word for Word.  See schedule for live and streamed performances and readings. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org                                     The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 17, 2023: Fritz Leiber – Tony Hillerman appeared first on KPFA.

Tony Hillerman, who died in 2008 at the age of 83, was a master of the detective genre and an important writer in detailing life on the Navajo reservation. His several novels featuring Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee have been acclaimed for their accuracy and for their ability to combine Navajo history and thought into strong plot-driven novels. There are four interviews with Tony Hillerman in the Probabilities and Bookwaves archive. This first interview, conducted by Richard A. Lupoff, the late co-host of Probabilities, was recorded on January 14, 1987 in a hotel in San Francisco while Hillerman was on tour for his novel, Skinwalkers, the seventh in the series, and the first to feature both Leaphorn and Chee. He would continue to write a total of eighteen books in the series, and his daughter, Anne Hillerman, has continued the series with eight more novels, the most recent being The Way of the Bear, which was published in April, 2023. Tony Hillerman also wrote four novels outside the series, and several books of non-fiction and photography. The Dark Wind was adapted into a theatrical film in 1991. Three other novels were adapted as TV movies for PBS, and Dark Winds, a streaming series currently on AMC, is adapted from Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee novels. The post The Probabilities Archive: Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) I, 1987 appeared first on KPFA.

WWAR for DecemberPart 2Show NotesOn this episode of Dark and Stormy Book Club, we have the second part of our WWAR forDecember.Tracey reported on “The Christmas Scarf Murder” anthology by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day,and Peggy Ehrhart. (Kensington Cozies 9/22)They're coziest of wintertime accessories...unless, of course, they become accessories tomurder! USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor teams up with Maddie Day and PeggyEhrhart for a holly jolly Christmas collection of seasonal stories, as their beloved series sleuthseach solve cases revolving around handknit Christmas scarves.CHRISTMAS SCARF MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNORWhen grinchy thefts steal the good cheer at a local nursing home, Siobhan O'Sullivan managesto identify one missing item before Kilbane, Ireland's Christmas tractor parade—a hideousshamrock scarf wrapped around a very dead body. Now, with her holiday farmhouse bashapproaching, Siobhan must dash to stop a deadly Secret Santa from gifting another unwantedsurprise.SCARFED DOWN by MADDIE DAYIt's beginning to taste a lot like Christmas at Pans ‘N Pancakes, as twelve days of menuspecials dazzle hungry locals. But the festivities go cold the instant a diner dies while knitting abrilliant green scarf. With Aunt Adele tied into a murder investigation, it's all on Robbie Jordan tofind out who's really been naughty or nice in South Lick, Indiana.DEATH BY CHRISTMAS SCARF by PEGGY EHRHARTSuspects pile up faster than New Jersey snow when frosty-tempered Carys Walnutt is foundstrangled by a handmade scarf auctioned at Arborville's tree-lighting ceremony. Between awinning bidder hiding behind the alias “S. Claws” and a victim who deserved coal in herstocking, can Pamela Paterson and the crafty Knit and Nibble ladies freeze a killer's merrymurder plot?Finally, Misty reported on “Varnished Without a Trace” by herself. (Kensington Cozies 9/2020)This Christmas, Tallie Graver would like to take a break from running her cleaning business tobe with her boyfriend, Max, and enjoy their first holiday together--alone. Instead, she's stuckkeeping her mother and grandmother from duking it out during the town's annual Christmas Evebingo game. As for festive spirit, she'll have to settle for her mean-spirited Aunt Ronda, whosemouth could use some soap.The night only gets worse after Tallie discovers Ronda's body. It seems someone cleaned herclock with a can of varnish. While all the evidence points to Ronda's husband, Tallie doesn'tbelieve her beloved Uncle Hoagie could do such a dirty deed. Of course, his suddendisappearance doesn't help his case. If Tallie hopes to clear his name, she'll need to dig upsome dirt to locate the real killer. Otherwise, someone else could get rubbed out . . .This is our final live episode for 2022. During our hiatus, we will be broadcasting some of themost popular episodes from this year. We wish all of our Dark and Stormy Family and friendsthe happiest, healthiest, and safest of the season. We will see you on January 10.TRIVIALast week's question was:Tony Hillerman was inspired by what writer?a. Mark Twainb. Charles Dickensc. Louis Lamored. Arthur W. UpfieldThe answer is d. Arthur W/. Upfield. Hillerman repeatedly acknowledged his debt to an earlierseries of mystery novels written by British-born Australian author Arthur W. Upfield and setamong Australian Aborigines in remote desert regions of tropical and subtropical Australia. TheUpfield novels were first published in 1928 and featured a half-European, half-aboriginalAustralian hero, Detective-Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte. Bony worked with deepunderstanding of Aboriginal traditions. The character was based on the achievements of anAboriginal person known as Tracker Leon, whom Upfield had met during his years in theAustralian bush.This week's question is:Tim Dorsey writes a mystery series featuring Serge A. Slorm. What makes him unique amongmystery protagonists?a. He is blindb. He is transgenderc. He has amnesiad. He suffers from several types of mental illnessTune in January 10 for the answer.

Listen as I dive into season 1 of Dark Winds with my guest Majerle Lister, host of Wósdéé podcast and co-host of F*ckin Sick Podcast.  We do deep dive of how this compares to the previous PBS Hillerman films and general reception of the Hillerman novels among Navajo people. Additionally we discuss the impact of having an all native writers room for this series and including historically accurate events for the 1970s on the Navajo reservation.  As always we do a cast review, discuss positives/negatives, and wrap up our overall thoughts of the season. Spoiler alert, we both really like it and can't wait for season two. We also give it some harsh criticism from a Navajo lens, regarding language use, writing, and cultural expression in the show. BUT we also acknowledge that most non-Navajo people will not hold the same critiques, so we look forward to hearing your critique of the first season! It was a fun discussion that yielded the longest podcast episode to date, hope you all enjoy. 

This week, we are talking about Tony Hillerman, a Native American author who published some of the best mystery novels. For a full list of sources, go to www.stonesbonesandshadowspodcast.com/post/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stonesbonesandshadows/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stonesbonesandshadows/support

A wide ranging talk about Hillerman and Morris's other subjects and how they fit into his conception of biography.

Tony Hillerman is a legendary western writer. His bestselling novels introduced readers to the Diné (Navajo) culture through characters Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Now, fans have a chance to meet the man behind the novels. New York Times bestselling author James McGrath Morris researched and wrote the definitive biography about Hillerman. He joins Russell and Alan to talk about his new book “Tony Hillerman: A Life.”

After the ApocalypseA pandemic survival storySeason One, Episode Nineteen - “The Gauntlet”“I don't like it.” KJ said. “Of course you don't.” the old man said in return. “Besides the obvious answer that the world has gone to hell, why not?”“There's too much smoke. Why would there be so much smoke this many weeks in? Who's burning stuff and why are they doing it?” “Maybe it's a barbeque.” The old man joked. “Yah know, short ribs, beer… It does smell like cooking meat.” “Maybe they'll barbeque your scrawny ass, old man.” She countered. “It smells more like plastic or tires or something.” Bill sniffed at the air and didn't seem pleased with what he smelled, but for now he could only pace and offer up an occasional worried whine. ...Greetings my survivor friends. How's the apocalypse treating you? Special welcome to my daughter, who pitched in with the typo hunting in this episode. Thanks for the great Father's Day card! I am stunned and amazed that here we are, episode 19. Who knew we'd be able to pull it off. This chapter was fun to write. I think we have a clear understanding of who these characters are – so I can drop them into situation and let them speak for themselves. We see our female protagonist Janet, a.k.a KJ the Killer, slipping into that ambiguity that the end of the world forces on people. We see the old man teetering on the brink of reality and sanity. We see the world thrashing about in the worst types of reactions that befall humans. The question is which way will they all slide? What will they choose? Do they even have a choice? We introduced that there is a ‘big bad' roaming around as the world starts to coalesce around survivors. The ‘big bad' is more than an antagonist to create narrative tension. The big bad is an alternate blueprint. He is the dark side of humanity that is always just outside, peering through that little window shaped like a porthole in the front door of civilization waiting for us to make a mistake. And that's always the tension with humanity. Civilization is a chaos suppressant. Civilization sees chaos as evil. All our religions have a manifestation of chaos, from Loki, to the Devil, to Coyote – there's always that tension between order and chaos, or more pedantically, good and evil. If you don't have that tension, then the story is just action without purpose. Or horror without purpose. Or comedy without purpose. And when the narrative fiction falls into that space you lose interest in the fate of the characters and all the action in the world can't keep it going. You need stakes. Unless there are stakes. Unless there is tension. There is no compelling narrative. And that's the fun part of creating a dystopian, apocalyptic universe. You get to decide how that tension of good versus evil is resolved. Anyhow… enough with the ontology. And speaking of Coyote the mischief making chaos god of some Native Americans - Here's my reading list tip for you this week. The Tony Hillerman books about Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn? I'm not a big mystery fan, but I started listening to these on audio book when I was commuting from my home outside Boston up to an office in Quebec City Canada. It's a long drive. I would get books on tape at the local library for the ride. Hillerman was an Albuquerque New Mexico resident and did a great job describing the Southwest US cultures, and in particular the Native American mythologies. The audio books, if you can find them, are read by Native American voice actors and the cadence of the read is amazing. There ya go – grab some Hillerman audio books for your summer vacation. In two weeks we will present the last chapter, chapter 20, in this first season. Then we'll take a pause to turn the first season into an e-book, a paperback and an audio book. I've got a copy editor to work through the scripts and I've got a couple artists working on cover art. I'm recruiting a book launch team and typo hunters. Come over to FaceBook and join the After the Apocalypse group that can be found by searching for “OldManApocalypse” – all one word – and pitch in. I'm asking nicely. I could use the help. I'm happy with how this season and the overall format came out. We're up over 11,000 downloads now. That's not bad for 6 months in as an indie podcast. The format lends itself to binge listening. The short consumable episode length and consistency allow people to just queue them up and march through them. Another irony of the podcasting world is that what took me 6 months to produce takes you a couple days to consume! I can keep up with this fortnightly cadence and still produce a decent quality product.  Unfortunately for you I have a full-time job and other things to attend to or I would be cranking out a season monthly! The next season we are going to add more compelling characters to the universe, we are going to add situations and institutions and threats that test our survival skills. So stick with us after the break. I hope all of you up in my hemisphere are enjoying your summers and those of you in antipodal hemispheres are enjoying your winters. As always I could use your support on the Patreon page to keep paying the bills. And I can use your participation on the facebook group at oldmanapocalypse. And of course keep leaving 5-star reviews on iTunes and keep telling your friends. And together, we will keep surviving.  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mysteries tied to history and setting. As author R. (Rich) Lawson Gamble and I discuss in this interview, the scene that he reads to us from his book The Dark Road is reminiscent of a right-of-passage ritual. Tolliver is just out of the FBI Academy and as you'll hear, somewhat out of his depth in the unforgiving Arizona landscape. Rich's Zack Tolliver series has seven books, with an eighth to be released very shortly. The Dark Road takes us back to Tolliver's origins and we meet the man who will become his law enforcement partner and friend. In the interview you'll hear Rich explain the very personal reason why each book in the series focuses on a new location. This week's mystery author R Lawson Gamble, known as Rich, was born and raised in New Jersey just west of the last commuter train station to New York. Born to a family of readers and musicians, he took his degree in music and sang professionally in the Boston and Providence, R.I. area performing oratorio and opera. He later accepted the position of Music Chairperson at a private school near Boston, where he worked in various capacities, from soccer coach to Dean of Students for the next 34 years. Rich moved to California in 2009 to begin his career as a writer. He has published eleven books to date, ten works of fiction, seven of which constitute his Zack Tolliver, FBI mystery series, a children's story starring Australian animals, and a history of Los Alamos Valley, his new home, for Arcadia Press.  To learn more about R. Lawson Gamble and his books visit RLawsonGamble.com Press play (above) to listen to the show, or read the transcript below. Remember you can also subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. And listen on Stitcher, Android, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, and Spotify. You can also click here to listen to the interview on YouTube. Excerpt from The Dark Road “Sometimes it is hard to see the dark road." Ashkii Nez Chapter One A sudden blast of hot wind set his tie flapping and flew on to form a spiral of dust beyond him on the deserted tarmac. His ears throbbed with the drone of the Cessna 172 he had just deplaned. He stood, suitcase in hand, a solitary vertical object in a horizontal world of runway and sand and watched the small plane inch away raising dust with its single prop. At last it reached the far end of the narrow airstrip and performed a clumsy pirouette, pausing momentarily as if undecided as its engine’s roar grew. It surged forward now, accelerated rapidly and somehow, as if by accident, bumped up into the air. Suddenly graceful, it angled southward and soared away joyously, all its former bonds with the clumsy earth now severed. For Zack Tolliver, FBI, it took with it the last vestige of everything he'd known in his short twenty-four years of life.  He watched the black dot fade into the dark blue. Long after it disappeared from his sight and its mechanical drone became one with the wind, he sighed and turned his head in a slow sweeping arc. A flat barren landscape surrounded him, gray and rust-red, defined by faraway vertical cliffs layered with horizontal ledges like a ladder for giants. At his feet, eruptions of yellow-green weed clawed at cracks in the aging concrete of the tarmac. His searching eyes found nothing resembling a terminal. The enormity of his transforming experience settled upon him like the dust itself, growing in him as the heat of the July afternoon assailed him. An occasional isolated breeze blew even hotter, like a dragon's breath. Sweat appeared in droplets on his brow, neatly trimmed brown hair became plastered to his forehead. The creases in his new polyester-rayon trousers expired, soggy circles bloomed in the armpits of his white linen shirt, his expensively tailored jacket wilted. Within minutes he removed his jacket, folded it carefully over his arm, relishing the momentary cooling effect of air moving against his damp shirt. He glanced at his watch.

Can a color become intoxicated? Can a Victorian play a proper April Fool's prank? Does Watson have an echo . . . echo . . . echo? All that, another woman with the initials "M.M." in Watson's life, and nobody singing except our theme! What more could you ask of a weekly Watsonian podcast!

Anne Hillerman's new book "The Tale Teller" is the fifth book in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series. We talk about the story, the craft of mystery writing, and the cultural/historical background.

In our next installment of In Agatha's Footsteps we interview Anne Hillerman and talk about her latest“ Book the Tale Teller Continuing a LegacyThe Tale Teller merges parallel mysteriesWhen Ann took over the series that made her father, Tony, famous, she gave voice to the female characters in the series, bring­ing them into the mainstream narrative without taking anything away from the male characters upon whom the series was built. Hillerman wisely left the best parts of her father’s beloved characters’ storylines intact while creating compelling new additions. This time, in The Tale Teller (Harper, $26.99, 320 pages, 9780062391957), three paral­lel tales merge with unexpected results for each of the three protag­onists. Retired cop Joe Leaphorn is investigating a case that the local museum director would like to have cleared up before her imminent retirement, that of a priceless traditional Navajo dress that has gone missing. Leaphorn’s former colleague Jim Chee is involved in an in­vestigation of jewelry thefts, largely of Native American antiques. And Bernadette “Bernie” Manuelito must, somewhat reluctantly, share the stage with the FBI in the investigation of a murder on a popular run­ning trail in the Arizona desert. As is always the case with Hillerman novels (either Tony or Anne), the supernatural is never far from the reader’s mind. Witchcraft and Na­tive American lore permeate the narrative in a way that has appealed to readers for nigh on 50 years, with no end in sight.” (From Whodunit by Bruce Tierney)

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Dylan Hillerman joins Stephanie and I for this episode. Then my wife, Kasey, sits in to review the movie Krampus. Dylan Hillerman www.Guignolfest.com Wish - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Quasi Motion Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

August 30, 2014. Anne Hillerman appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: The characters Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn and Bernadete Manuelito, made famous by Tony Hillerman, get a new story line in "Spider Woman's Daughter," by Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman. "Spider Woman" is Anne Hillerman's first novel, though not her first book. She is the author of the award-winning "Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn." Hillerman has also been editorial page editor of the Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a director of the Wordharvest Writers Workshops and the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6444